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Type: documentary

Status: —

Author: Steven Levy

Tags: history security government internet cryptography

Description: A narrative of the development of the public practice of cryptography, which was originallyA narrative of the development of the public practice of cryptography, which was originally a military and government arena. Chronicles the brainstorms of computer geniuses Whit Diffie, the inventor of the 'public key' solution, David Chaum, the creator of 'anonymous digital money,' and others. DLC: Computer security....

2006-02-09

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Type: documentary

Status: disliked

Author: Peter J. Levinson

Tags: biography music entertainment jazz trombone

Description: "Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to"Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to - and went to war to. No musician evokes those times more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956), whose trombone style and smash hits created legions of fans and influenced popular music for decades. Dorsey led a rich and complex life. After a harsh childhood in the coal mining towns of eastern Pennsylvania, the young trombonist rose to fame and fortune during the Jazz Age. With his brother Jimmy, Tommy Dorsey created one of the most popular bands of the era and played with such giants as Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. But Dorsey's volcanic personality eventually erupted, and he went off to start his own band. Within a few years, he launched the career of a skinny young singer named Frank Sinatra." Drawing on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews with the musicians who knew him best, Levinson delves into Dorsey's famously eccentric lifestyle and the reasons for his destructive behavior. The bandleader died suddenly in 1956, a victim perhaps of his oversize appetite for perfection, drink, women. The first biography of Dorsey in more than thirty years, Tommy Dorsey is a portrait of one of the Big Band era's brightest star - his tumultuous life, his turbulent times, and the unforgettable music that made him a legend....

2006-01-12

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Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: Bev Vincent

Tags: horror stephenking

Description: This is the limited edition hardcover from CD Publications.

2006-01-10

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Type: documentary

Status: favorite

Author: Edmund Lester Pearson

Tags: libraries booksonbooks librarianship

Description: "A selection of articles from the Boston Evening Transcript and other sources""A selection of articles from the Boston Evening Transcript and other sources"
The Elm Tree Press
Woodstock, Vermont
(c) 1910...

2005-11-30

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Type: documentary

Status: now reading

Author: Wil Haygood

Tags: biography music entertainment

Description: His life appeared to be a fulfillment of the American Dream. From his rise to top billing onHis life appeared to be a fulfillment of the American Dream. From his rise to top billing on the nightclub circuit to his recording contracts, his featured roles on Broadway to his Hollywood stardom, his fame and fortune in Las Vegas to his Rat Pack heyday, Sammy Davis, Jr. seemed to have had it all and have done it all. Yet despite his successes, his celebrity friendships, and his untold romances, the entertainer was a roiling storm of contradictions and conflict. Admired and reviled by both blacks and whites, he was tormented by raging insecurities, never quite coming to terms with his own skin. In his award-winning biography, Wil Haygood takes Davis beyond the icon to explore the man trapped between a world of black and white, love and hate, identity and persona. Based on painstaking research and over 250 interviews, In Black and White transcends simple biography to provide a vast and vivid cultural history of the twentieth century as well as an intimate portrayl of one of America's greatest entertainers....

2005-11-28

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Type: documentary

Status: —

Author: Edmund Lester Pearson

Tags: booksonbooks

Description: New Edition Februrary, 1924.
The chapter titled "The Lost First Folio" is definitelyNew Edition Februrary, 1924.
The chapter titled "The Lost First Folio" is definitely worth a read for those that know what the chapter's title refers to....

2005-11-16

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Type: documentary

Status: —

Authors: Kevin D. Mitnick William L. Simon Steve Wozniak

Tags: hackers crime computers socialengineering

2005-11-14

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Paul Collins

Tags: booksonbooks

Description: wonderful book about books.

2005-10-29